wow. at least now i know one way that i don't annoy the crap out of my doctors (the size of my chart alone gives them lumbar pain): i'm just shy enough in public/constantly lost in thought enough that i could inadvertently be standing next to my best friend in a store and not realize it. needless to say, my docs could probably run smack into me in the store and i wouldn't realize it's them. wait-does that mean i have a brain lesion? i guess i should ask the check out clerk next time i'm in super target. that is, if i'm not too busy trying to figure out why the hell the credit card machine is asking me if i want to put my purchase all on one card (wtf?!). ;-)

LOL...I've had experiences like this, too. Spent a number of years working retail, and every once in a while I'd run into some former doctor of mine. The strangest case had to be the neurosurgeon, since although I hadn't occasion to see him in many years (thank goodness), the litany of questions I got asked was like being catapulted back to the mid 1980s when I was still a "regular". In some weird way it's almost the opposite situation of your post. Guess these encounters are a hazard of doctoring...

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